Rhodes must fall: Oxford students vote out imperialist statue

‘Cecil Rhodes’ statue at Oxford must go after decolonization campaigners won a historic vote, yet a YouGov polls finds 44 percent of Britons are proud of British colonial history.

Some 245 students voted to remove the statue of Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes, after whom the former country of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was named, from the Oxford University grounds, while 212 voted against.

The Rhodes Must Fall (RMF) campaign is part of a wider ‘decolonizaton’ movement at the prestigious institution which has served as a training ground for the British establishment for centuries.’

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